SamuelRSmith on 25 July 2007
So no-one likes my rating system???
I'll elaborate:
Everyone starts off with a certain rating (a la Germany post-hyper inflation, new currency, everyone restarted with the same amount of money - 500 marks, I believe), say, 1,000 (like gamedev).
Now basically, whenever someone makes a really good post (informative, entertaining, etc) members can rate people up (only in increments of 1, btw). And if a member makes a particually bad post (fanboyism, swearing, etc) they can be rated down (decrements of 1).
The user rating gets displayed somewhere below the usersname on every post. It can encourage people to only make good posts, and it allows people to quickly skip crap posts.
